HPE OpenVMS Hobbyist license program is closing

[James B DiGriz]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2020 01:30:46 +0100
Tomasz Rola via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
 
> In a future, all corpos will belong to AIs. And I guess AIs will be
> interested in discovering more about their, hum, ancestry. And they
> will be able to track down all remaining shoe boxen with punch cards,
> and use hobbyists for mutual fun.
> 
> So all that is required is to convince current management that those
> old tapes and plans and manuals have great value, which then can be
> mined with some "deep CEO", once it inevitably comes. They should
> believe it.
> 

Ha, ha, only serious? Sometimes you have to wonder, though, if either
men or machines will care at that point.

jbdigriz
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It takes a mind, always a mind, to abstract meaning from each step through which the machine is directed by its specific man-built mechanism.

Stanley L Jaki

"Brain, Mind, and Computers"
https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1972/JASA3-72Jaki.html